16,065 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.2% since 2020)
2,899 square miles of land · 6 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
10 active community water systems list Hill County in the area they serve, reporting 12,313 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| HAVRE CITY OF surface water · local government · MT0000524 | 9,921 served |
| HILL COUNTY WATER DISTRICTS groundwater · local government · MT0000249 | 1,720 served |
| EAST END COLONY INC groundwater · private · MT0001780 | 100 served |
| NORTH HAVRE COUNTY WATER DIST buys surface water · local government · MT0002988 | 90 served |
| NCMRWA NORTH HAVRE CWD LEG buys surface water · local government · MT0004720 | 90 served |
| BITTERROOT TP HAVRE UNAPPROVED groundwater · private · MT0003404 | 88 served |
| HIDDEN VALLEY COLONY groundwater · private · MT0004987 | 80 served |
| HILLDALE COLONY buys surface water · private · MT0001774 | 79 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 39 people were held in Hill County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 389 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 60.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
11 school districts have their office in Hill County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $17.5 million — $14.5 million to run schools, about $12,094 per student, plus $2.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.2 million local (mostly property tax), $7.6 million state, $4.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.2 million.
Spent $7.6 million — $6.8 million to run schools, about $12,893 per student, plus $639,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.5 million local (mostly property tax), $3.6 million state, $53,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.3 million.
Spent $11.2 million — $10.3 million to run schools, about $21,245 per student, plus $685,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $977,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.9 million state, $8.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $482,000.
Spent $6.7 million — $6.5 million to run schools, about $21,294 per student, plus $246,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $917,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.9 million state, $4.7 million federal.
Spent $2 million — $2 million to run schools, about $13,287 per student, plus $41,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.3 million local (mostly property tax), $662,000 state, $324,000 federal.
Spent $2.7 million — $2.4 million to run schools, about $16,493 per student, plus $218,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $582,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.2 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $740,000.
Spent $2.7 million — $2.7 million to run schools, about $24,667 per student, plus $20,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $585,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.1 million state, $858,000 federal.
Spent $1.7 million — $1.6 million to run schools, about $30,396 per student. Money in: $1.3 million local (mostly property tax), $463,000 state, $8,000 federal.
And 3 more.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Hill County about $13.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
46 bridges in Hill County: 27 in good condition, 16 fair, and 3 poor (6.5%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| IRR ROUTE 46 over BIG SANDY CREEK · built 1963 | 100 vehicles a day |
| ROAD 290 N over CANADIAN COULEE 036 · built 1980 | 100 vehicles a day |
| 48TH ST W over BEAVER CREEK 046 · built 1966 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $108.1 million of work in Hill County in fiscal 2025, about $6,629 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Montana are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Hill County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Hill County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Liberty County (43 mi) · Chouteau County (54 mi) · Blaine County (54 mi) · Toole County (74 mi) · Pondera County (100 mi) · Phillips County (103 mi).